Apparatus for generating gas.



No. 70|,806. Patented lune 3, |902.

l W. J."FAULKNER. y A

APPARATUS FUR GENERATING GAS.

(Application led Aug. 19, 1901.)

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W. FAULKNER. APPARATUS .PDB GENERATING GAS.

' (Application ild Aug. 19, 1901.)

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(No Model.)

no. 701,000. Patented lune 3. |902.

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APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS.

A licatin filed Aug. 19, 1901.)

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WILLIAM J. FAULKNER, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

APPARATU 4 FO Fi GENERATING GAS.

Application filed August 19,1961. Serial No. 72,555. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known thatI, WILLIAM J. FAULEN EE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Apparatusfor-Generat ing Gas, of which the following-when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete description, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

This invention relates to `an apparatus by y means of which there may be practiced .the process of generating iniiammable gas by the presentation of oil or a mixture of oil and water or solid materials to a highly-heated body, the disintegration of such material,and thereby the production of an iniiammable gas; to

the process of p generating :tn-inflammable gas by the introduction of such materials into a chamber heated to a high temperature, (as by conduction,) and tothe construction of such apparatus.

The object of this'invention isy to obtain a durable and economically-constructed apparatus by means of which the hereinbefore-referred-to processes maybe reduced to practice." In the drawings referred to, Figure I is a l vertical sectional View of .anl apparatus ernl bodying the mechanical constructions ofthe invention and by means of which the processes of making gas hereinafter set forth may be practiced. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the upper end of one of the feeders of the generating-chambers of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the apparatus shown in Fig. I on line 3 3 of such Fig. l, viewed in the directionv indicated by the arrows. Fig. 4 is a top plan view on line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. `5 is a vertical sectional View, on an enlarged scale, of one of the gasgenerators of the apparatus, showing the feeder through which the gas-producing fluid is introduced thereinto in side elevation: Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view, on a scale enlarged from the scale of Fig. 5, of a short sectionof one of the gas-generators of the apparatus'and of the lower end of the'feeder thereof on line 6 6 of Fig. 7, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows.

f spectively,

Fig. 7 is ahori-v ,zontal sectional view of such feeder on lines 7 A7 of Figs. 5 and 6,vi'ewed in the direction indicated by the arrows.

A reference-letter applied to designate a 'given part is used to indicatev such part throughout the severalgures of the drawings wherever the same'appears.

A is a receptacle preferably provided with {ire-brick lining rci, and the horizontal ceiling c', such ceiling providedfwith fire-brick on the under sidethereof, forming the furnace of the apparatus and also forming a well for molten'material, as, say, molten steel, iron, glass, and the like;

a2 is an inlet to receptaclel A for molten material.

a3 is an air-supply-damper to the receptacle A, and a4 is theoutlet fromsuch receptacle for the escape of the products of combustion or partial combustion therein.

a5 is the top of the receptacle A.

' B is molten material in receptacle A.

C C are fuel-supplypipes discharging, re-

adjacent to the upper surface of the molten material'B. y Fuel-supply pipe C may be used, say,'. for oil,'and fuel-supply pipe C may be used, if desired, for water or steam. A fire or-furnace is thus obtained in receptacle A, the lbottom whereof is molten material B.

D D' are gas-generators in receptacle A.

Gas-generators Vof the type lettered D have no bottoms thereto, thereby permitting the molten material B to rise therein to substantially the samelevel as the molten material in the receptacle A. Gas-generators of the type lettered D' are closed atthe bottom, as is shown in Fig. 1. These gas-generators D D are made of 'material which may be subjected to the heat of moltenmaterial, as, say, nre-clay.

E is a discharge-pipe for the gas .made in the several gas-generators, and F F are pipes from such generators to the discharge-pipe E, forming communicating passage-ways.

The interior construction of the several gasgenerators D D is well shown in Figsg, 6, and 7 wherein G is the feeder to such generator, H H are delivery-nozzles to the feeder Gr, and I is the supply-pipe within the feeder G for oil or for oil-gas.

Nozzle H comprises the coupling h, laterally-extending pipes 7L h', open at the outer ends thereof, respectively, coupling J, attached to the lower end of the supply-pipe I, and laterally-extendingsupply-pipesjj. The depending Water-discharge nozzle H and the depending oil-supply pipe j may be used when desired.

K is a stuiing-box to feeder G at the upper end of the several gas-generators D D'. Water or water-gas is supplied to the feeders G through the supply-pipe L and branch pipes ZZ, and the quantity of water or water-gas which is delivered therethrough is controlled by the valves Z Z. Oil or oil-gas is supplied to the supply-pipe I through the circular supply-pipe M and branches m m, and the quantity of oil or oil-gas supplied is controlled by the several valves m' m.

N, Fig. 2, is a stuffing-box on supply-pipe I at the upper end of the feeder G, where pipe I enters such feeder.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: Molten material-as molten iron, molten glass, and the likeis run into the receptacle A. Oil (or oil-gas) and water (or water gas or vapor) may be forced into the receptacle A through the supply-pipes C O', respectively, for combustion above the molten material B. Air is supplied through damper a3 and combustion or partial combustion will occur, the products thereof passing out from the receptacle A through pipe a4. A high temperature will prevail in the receptacle A and in the several gasgenerators D D'. Oil and water or oil-gas and Water-gas are supplied through the respective feeders G G to the generators D D, and gas is generated from the oil and water, or the oil and water gases are superheated in the generators and pass out of such generators through the communicating pipes F into the gas-discharge pipe E. The action is continuous so long as the molten material in the receptacle A flows therethrough with sufficient rapidity to retain fluidity or so long as such molten material is retained in the receptacle, and additional heat is applied thereto b v the combustion of fuel discharged into the receptacle A below the horizontal partition a and above the surface of the molten material B. The gas made is discharged from the apparatus through discharge-pi pe E.

As is well known to those familiar to the operation of making water-gas and making gas, by intermittently heating to incandescence a mass of checker-work and then directing against the same a stream of gas-producing material,and thereby obtaining water gas or carbureted water-gas, the quality of the gas made varies as the heat of the mass whereby disintegration is obtained varies, and when this apparatus is used in conjunction with or as an adjunct to such apparatus the gas is directed into the generators of my apparatus through the feeders G and discharge-nozzles I'I Il. Such gas is thereby heated to a high temperature and the quality thereof made uniform and, in my opinion, more permanently fixed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a gas-generating apparatus, the combination of a receptacle provided with a lining of refractory material, means for delivering into such receptacle molten material, means for introducing combustible fluids into the receptacle and directing such combus tible fluids against the molten material, a series of depending generators extending below the surface of the molten material, and means to discharge gaseous fluids into the generators and to deliver gas from such generators; su bstantially as described.

2. In a gas-generating apparatus, a receptacle provided with a lining of refractory material and provided with an inlet for molten material, and molten material in such receptacle, in combination with a series of depending gas-generators open at the lower end thereof, respectively, such open end below the surface of the molten material, feeders in the respective gas-generators, means for heating the molten material and the generators, and such gas-generators provided with outlets for gas: substantially as described.

3. In a gas-generating and superheating apparatus, a receptacle provided with a lining of refractory material, molten metal in the receptacle, and such receptacle, provided With an inlet for such molten metal, in combination with a series of depending gas-generators, provided, respectively, with inlets and outlets, a gas-discharge pipe common to all the generators, and provided with communicating passage-ways to the respective generators, and means to heat the molten metal and generators: substantially as described.

4. In a gas-generating apparatus, a receptacle provided with a lining of refractory material and provided with an inlet for molten metal, an inlet for combustible material and an inlet for the admission of air to support combustion, and provided with an outlet for the products of combustion, in combination with depending gas-generators, such gas-generators respectively extending to outside the receptacle, and feeders in the gas-generators, such feeders consisting of pipes respectively provided with apertures and additional pipes provided also with apertures, contained within the first-named pipes, and such gas-generators provided, respectively, with outlets for the delivery of gas obtained therein: substantially as described.

5. In a gas-generating apparatus, a receptacle for molten material, molten material in such receptacle, a series of gas-generators partially immersed in such molten material, means for heating the molten material' and the generators, means to deliver gaseous fluid into the generators a gas-pipe, such gas-pipe and the several gas-generators provided with IIO and an outlet for the products of combustion; substantially as described.

7. In a gas-generating apparatus, a furnace, molten material in such furnace, a series of gasgenerators, means to heat the molten material and the generators, means to deliver gaseous iiuid into the generators, and a gas-pipe, such gas-pipe and the several gasgenerators provided with communicating passage-Ways; substantially as described.

W'ILLIAM J. FAULKNER.

In presence of- CHARLES TURNER BROWN, C. A. ADAMS. 

